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Cruising the Dead River: David Wojnarowicz and New York''s Ruined Waterfront

English

By (author): Fiona Anderson

In the 1970s, Manhattans west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers sexual and social worlds, artists produced work attesting to the radical transformations taking place in New York. Artist and writer David Wojnarowicz was right in the heart of it, documenting his experiences in journal entries, poems, photographs, films, and large-scale, site-specific projects. In Cruising the Dead River, Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowiczs work to explore the key role the abandoned landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Anderson examines how the riverfronts ruined buildings assumed a powerful erotic role and gave the area a distinct identity. By telling the story of the piers as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis, Anderson unearths the buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LGBTQ activism that developed in and around the cruising scene. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Aug 2019
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780226603759

About Fiona Anderson

Fiona Anderson is lecturer in art history in the fine art department at Newcastle University.

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